Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-05-16
THE OBLIGATORY ADDRESS.

At the conclusion of the PRAYER Judge
Lorenzo Sawyer delivered the dedicatory
address as follows:
Founders and the Board of Trustees of the II.
land Stanford, Junior, University and ladies
and gentlemen
| regret that a short notice and the pressure Of
ofheial duties have rendered it impossible, were
L otherwise competent, TO prepare an address
worthy of this great occasion.
we nave met to perform great and interest
ing pubic duty. We have assembled at the re-
quest of the founders to lay the cornerstone of
an ediice-the first of a series-for the use of
| the Leland Stanford, Junior, University-a uni
versity which it is hoped in the near future
when more fully developed will be second to
no institution OF learning in the land. That it
may be so is the ardent desire of its founders
and to secure that grand result the university
mas been so munlticently endowed as to attract
the attention and call forth the admiration of
the world All this has been done while those
making the endowment yet live, while ambition
Tor further acquisitions is usually still active in
the human breast.
The founders of the contemplated university
very properly and very wisely resolve to them
spersonally to carry out the great plans they
have formed. and see that their designs are duly
executed and the desired result attained
Inc nature. objects, purposes and scope of the
coming institution may be best stated in the
concise language of the founders, as set forth in
their deed of trust: Its nature-that of a uni
versity, with such seminarics of learning as
shall make it of the highest grade, including
,
art, laboratories and Conservatives, together
with all things necessary for the study of agri-
culture in all its branches, and for mechanical
training and the studies and exercises iirected
TO the cultivation and enlargement of the mind
It's object, to qualify students for personal sue
cess, and direct usefulness in life. And its pt1r-
poses, to promote the public welfare, by exer-
clSlng an influence in behalf OF humanity and
civilization, teaching the blessings of liberty,
regulated by law and intoxicating love aud rev.
erence TOR the great principles of government
as derived from the inalienable rights of man to
life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" To
what nobler Objects what more henefcent Dur
poses, what grander work. can human energies
and the accumulatlons of successful business
life be devoted?
1t will be seen, by this brief statement of the
nature, objects and purposes of the foundation
that the ultimate scope of the institution when
fully developed. is of the broade,t and most
comprehensive character that il embraces the
whole range of human instruction human
knowledge and human research and contem-
plates atiording the means fer still further re-
search, discovery and advancement in knowl-
edge
Ii contsmplates preparatory and academic in
struction collegiate instruction in various col
leges. such as colleges of letters, or law of
medicine technical colleges and institutes for
instruc ton in the various mechanical and fine
arts, and the pursuit of postgraduate studies
and research appropriate 10 university proper
OF the very highest grade. II is especially de-
signed to give instruction in those mechsn ical
arts, the exercise of which tend to ameliorate
llc anu the elevation
aud happiness of mankind at large-sucE as
agriculture and the various mechanical pursuits.
Inc ample donation of means, the location
within al hours ride of the metropolis of the
PACING states, and the amount of territory set
apart for the sole, special. immediate use and
occupation OF the University, not including the
large domain exclusively appropriated to the
purposes OF atfording revenue, are on q scale
corresponding with the extent and grandeur of
the conception. The tract of land thus set apart
and forever devoted to the uses of the Univer-
sity, upon which we have now laid the corner
stone of the first of series of edifices to be
erected tor its accommodation, contains more
than thirteen square miles, all of which is adj
| mirably adapted 10 the requirements of its
various departmen and especially those of
agriculture and the mechanic arts There is
| ample room for all departments of the grand
est OF institutions OF the kind to work har-
ANONYMOUSLY together. The fitness of the location
Tor the contemplated purposes is pointed out.
and the OBJECTS more fully developed in the ad-
dress OF tue donors to the Trustees, made at the
time OF the execution of the deed of trust after
| the organization of the Board. to which address
reference for further information is made
Should the plans of the founders o. the
Leland Stanford, Jr., University be successfully
carried out, there Is no calculating the benefits
that must necessarily accrue not only to the
state OF California, but to the entire nation and
mankind al large. VINO can estimate or con-
ceiye the influence of such institutions as Har-
ward and Yale, or even of the hundreds of lesser
| note, upon the Intellectual moral and material
well-being and prosperity of orr vast country
Vt Oh sucn lilstltutiOns as Oxt0rd and Cam
bridge, not only upon the destinies of England
but OF Europe and of the entire human race
Ii is the cultivation of letters and the various
arts and sciences. through such agencies, that
eleyates civilized and enlightened man, and
places him upon the plane so far above the
savage. That people which carries its educa-
tonai institutions to the utmost point of pe-fec-
| ton and of usefulness attainable is the people
tnat rise to the highest plane of human exist
c ce and happiness
| The little grove in the suburbs of Athens,
which AcadeDus presented to the Athenians
constituted the academy in which Socrates and
Plato and their disciples taught their pbilcso